Longmen Shan (Sichuan)
| Longmen Shan | ||
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| location | Sichuan ( PR China ) | |
| part of | Tibet highlands | |
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| Coordinates | 31 ° 1 ′ N , 103 ° 22 ′ E | |
Longmen Shan ( Chinese 龍門山 / 龙门山 , Pinyin Lóngmén Shān - "Dragon Gate Mountains") is a mountain range in the Chinese province of Sichuan in southwest China and runs on the northwestern edge of the Sichuan Basin (Red Basin) between Guangyuan , Beichuan and Dujiangyan from northeast to southwest at an altitude of 1000 to 1500 meters. It is the eastern edge of the Tibetan highlands .
The seismically active Longmenshan fault ( 龍門山 斷裂帶 / 龙门山 断裂带 , Lóngmén Shān Duànlièdài - "Longmenshan fault zone" or 龍門山 大 斷層 / 龙门山 大 断层 , Lóngmén Shān Dà Duàncéng - "large Longmenshan fault zone" etc.), which is considered to be the cause of the disaster of the earthquake of May 12, 2008 and the Longmenshan earthquake belt ( 龍門山 地震 帶 / 龙门山 地震 带 , Lóngmén Shān Dìzhèndài ) are named after the mountains.
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Footnotes
- ↑ Magnitude 7.9 - EASTERN SICHUAN, CHINA ( en ) USGS Earthquake Center. Retrieved May 20, 2008.